Do you ever have the experience of hearing a piece of music and immediately recalling a time, place or a person from the past? For me – and I suspect most people – music, like the sense of smell or taste can trigger memories very vividly. It is surprising to me, given the ease with…
My new album entitled On The Other Hand is available for pre-order on Bandcamp and will be released officially this Friday August 23. It will also soon be available on all the usual streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify. On The Other Hand by Pancycle This is an album of primarily rhythmic, electronic music.…
I have been working on a new album and I am working my way towards the finish line. One of the final things I would like to do is to assemble a sort of crowd sourced choir of people singing a very short musical phrase for one of the songs. If you are able to…
Last week the world lost a great creator and the steel band lost arguably its most influential and powerful force. Ellie Mannette died Wednesday August 29 in Morgantown WV where he had lived for the past 27 years. It’s taken me a few days since his death to even begin to find words to write…
As I wrote in another post I have been working on new music and recording some acoustic instruments I have. One of these instruments is an Ngoni made for me by Mark Lupescu, a friend who lives in Barcelona and is the man behind Lupan Handpans
I have the opportunity this week to work intensively on a new record I hope to release at the end of the year. Unlike my last record, Channels, this will be a combination of acoustic and electronic instruments and samples mostly consisting of recordings I made in Morocco on our 2 visits there. I hope…
I have slowly begun to accumulate new ideas for a new album of generative ambient music and I thought it would be nice to share one of them here. I spent a lot of time over the last few years creating and refining a collection of MIDI effects plugins within Ableton Live that I call…
Last Night I heard Yoshio Machida and Constantin Papageorgiadis perform an improvised piece of music on 2 vintage EMS Synthi AKS at AB Salon here in Brussels. This was the first time I had heard of the Synthi but I have come to realize that I have been HEARING it for many years on some…
Last Saturday I had the great pleasure of hearing Gruppo Sportivo at Cuulturpodium Boerderij in Zoetermeer Netherlands.